Oxstones Investment Club™When I was still a young buck out in the workplace, financial magazines periodically published worksheets for calculating when you […]
How to play resource scarcity
By Melissa Shin, From http://www.advisor.ca/investments/market-insights/how-to-play-resource-scarcity-113413 By 2050, it’s all over, says Jeremy Grantham: we’ll have either used up all cheap […]
April 2013 Economic Snapshot: Housing Ownership and Rental Trends
Do you rent or own in New York City? For our April 2013 Economic Snapshot, NYCEDC looked at the City’s […]
Vanguard: Fundamentals Useless for Predicting Stock Returns
Fundamentals — corporate earnings, profit margins and gross domestic productFundamentals (GDP) growth — are supposed to be the ultimate guide […]
CHART OF THE DAY: Proof That You Stink At Investing
Most investors understand that they are unlikely to beat the major stock market indexes. Still, many investors remain convinced that […]
Insider buying of gold stocks surges to multi-year highs
By Darcy Keith, The Globe and Mail, The TSX global gold index has lost about a third of its value […]
How Much Do You Need to Save for Retirement, Really?
From www.millersmoney.com, By Dennis Miller Human beings are, by nature, heuristic. Although we are immensely intelligent, our brains are not […]
Wood – The fuel of the future? Environmental lunacy in Europe
From the Economist, WHICH source of renewable energy is most important to the European Union? Solar power, perhaps? (Europe has […]
Bullish on Coal: Contrarian Dream or Nightmare?
If there is one great American industry that has been left for dead, it is the U.S. coal industry. With […]
KKR to Carlyle Target $3.6 Trillion in 401(k)s Accounts
By Margaret Collins and Devin Banerjee, Bloomberg Private-equity firms, the exclusive money managers overseeing $3 trillion worldwide for the wealthiest […]